'Sound Of Music' star Christopher Plummer dies
almost 5 years in Otago Daily Times
Christopher Plummer in 2017. Photo: Reuters
Christopher Plummer, a patrician Canadian who starred as widower Captain von Trapp opposite Julie Andrews in the blockbuster 1965 musical "The Sound Of Music" and in 2012 became the oldest actor to win an Oscar, has died at 91, his longtime friend and manager Lou Pitt says.